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Scientists Amazed by Monkfish’s Bizarre Feeding Habits

NEFSC researcher Larry Alade holds a tagged monkfish prior to release (Pasha Ivanov)
Apr 16, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of biologists studying monkfish has found that the bottom-dwelling creature can prey on a small Arctic seabird called dovekie, the smallest member of the puffin family. NEFSC researcher Larry Alade holds a tagged monkfish prior to release (Pasha Ivanov) Monkfish (Lophius americanus), also known as American anglerfish, goosefish or all-mouth, are highly opportunistic predators. The fish are typically partially buried on soft bottom...

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Magpie fiddler ray (Brett Williamson / ABC Adelaide, via the South Australian Research and Development Institute)

Magpie Fiddler Ray Caught in Australian Waters – First Specimen Since 1954

Apr 15, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Australian biologists announced the unexpected capture of an extremely rare ray – the Magpie fiddler ray (Trygonorrhina melaleuca). Magpie fiddler...

This image shows Australopithecus sediba, center, compared to the skeleton of a modern human, left, and a chimpanzee, right (Lee Berger / University of the Witwatersrand)

Research Reveals How Australopithecus sediba Walked, Chewed, Moved

Apr 15, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

New research appearing in six papers in the journal Science describes how the hominid Australopithecus sediba walked, chewed, and moved around 2 million...

H7N9 Bird Flu Strain Adapts to Humans, Study Shows

Apr 15, 2013 by News Staff

A new genetic study of the novel avian influenza A (H7N9) virus published online in the journal Eurosurveillance portrays a virus evolving to adapt to...

This image shows global surface air temperature anomalies four million years ago (A. V. Fedorov et al)

Climate Models Challenged as Scientists Identify Ancient Pool of Warm Water

Apr 12, 2013 by News Staff

A giant mass of warm water that stretched out from Indonesia over to Africa and South America about 4 million years ago suggests current climate models...

Air quality signboard indicating an ozone watch in Gulfton, Houston

Ozone Exposure Linked to Thousands of Premature Deaths Annually

Apr 12, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of scientists has used world-leading neutron sources at the Institute Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France, and at the Rutherford Appleton...

Researchers from the GIANT consortium identified new genes influencing height and related to obesity (National Institutes of Health / U.S. Department of Health & Human Services)

Genetic Researchers Identify New Height, Obesity Genes

Apr 12, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international scientific collaboration led by Dr Ruth Loos of Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK, and Dr Erik Ingelsson of the Uppsala University,...

Rosemary, Rosmarinus officinalis, at the Botanical Garden KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany (H. Zell / CC BY-SA 3.0)

New Study: Rosemary Aroma May Improve Prospective Memory

Apr 12, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to a study conducted by Dr Jemma McCready and Dr Mark Moss from the University of Northumbria, England, the aroma of rosemary oil may improve...

Bird's eye view of the Second Temple Period ritual bath unearthed in the Qiryat Menachem quarter, Jerusalem (Israel Antiquities Authority)

Second Temple Period Ritual Bath Found in Jerusalem

Apr 12, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Israeli archaeologists excavating in the Qiryat Menachem quarter of Jerusalem have unearthed remains of a ritual bath dating back to the late Second Temple...

Left: Easter Island statue Hoa Hakananai’a. Right: RTI view of carvings on the statue (University of Southampton Press)

Archaeologists Analyze Carvings on Easter Island Statue

Apr 12, 2013 by News Staff

Researchers at the University of Southampton have used the latest in digital imaging technology to analyze carvings on Hoa Hakananai’a, a moai (Easter...

Sources of cholesterol (University of California, San Francisco)

Study Finds New Way to Clear Cholesterol from Blood

Apr 11, 2013 by News Staff

A research reported in the online journal eLife identifies a new therapeutic target for lowering cholesterol. Sources of cholesterol (University of California,...

Thunderstorms can produce an exotic kind of electrical breakdown that involves high-energy electrons and their anti-matter equivalent called positrons (University of Minnesota)

Scientists Explain Invisible ‘Dark Lightning’

Apr 11, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Researchers from the Florida Institute of Technology’s Department of Physics and Space Science have developed a new model of exactly how terrestrial...

Euphanerops, a fossil jawless fish that lived some 370 million years ago (Robert S. Sansom et al / Biology Letters)

British Paleontologists Find Devonian Jawless Fish with Unusual Fin

Apr 11, 2013 by News Staff

Leicester University scientists have identified the paired fins of Euphanerops, a fossil jawless fish that lived some 370 million years ago. Euphanerops,...

Semitransparent flesh reconstruction of embryonic dinosaur inside egg, with skeleton (D. Mazierski)

Oldest Dinosaur Embryos Discovered in China, Organic Remains Found inside Embryonic Bones

Apr 11, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of paleontologists has unearthed the earliest collection of fossilized dinosaur embryos to date, and discovered organic material...

An Incipient Jomon pot from Kubodera-minami, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, about 15,000 years old (Tokamchi City Museum)

Study Finds Earliest Evidence Yet of Pottery Used for Cooking

Apr 11, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to a pioneering study detailed in the journal Nature, hunter-gatherers were using pots for cooking fish as early as 15,000 years ago. Left: a...

Niumbaha – New Bat Genus Identified in Sudan

Apr 10, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of biologists led by Prof DeeAnn Reeder from Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, and Dr Adrian Garside from Fauna & Flora International...

According to Dr Sinha from Newcastle University and his colleagues, muscle function improves with vitamin D supplements which are thought to enhance the activity of the mitochondria - the batteries of the cell (Richard Stockton College of New Jersey)

Vitamin D Boosts Your Energy Levels, Research Shows

Apr 10, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A new study led by Dr Akash Sinha from Newcastle University has shown that vitamin D is vital for making our muscles work efficiently and boosting energy...

Carnivorous two-legged dinosaur swimming in a river, making claw marks as it touches bottom with its tiptoes (Nathan E. Rogers)

Study: Some Dinosaurs were Good Swimmers

Apr 10, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

100M year old dinosaur tracks reported in the journal Chinese Science Bulletin suggest that some dinosaurs were strong swimmers. Carnivorous two-legged...

Kappa Coronae Borealis, based on Herschel observations at 100 μm (ESA / Bonsor et al)

Herschel Observes Dust Belt around Kappa Coronae Borealis

Apr 10, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers using ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory have captured the first images of a dust belt orbiting a subgiant star known to host a planetary system. Kappa...

This 3D image shows a cosmic-ray muon producing a large shower of energy as it passes through the NOvA far detector in Minnesota (NOvA collaboration)

NOvA Neutrino Detector Sees Particles in 3D

Apr 10, 2013 by News Staff

What will soon be the most powerful neutrino detector in the U.S. has recorded its first 3D images of particles. This 3D image shows a cosmic-ray muon...

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